"I want the girl." a dark voice said. "Now."

The man in the black room looked into the monitor with the red eyes staring at him. "I have teams

scouting out the city, we'll have her in mere hours."

"You'd better." The monitor said to him. "You know how much I hate failure."

The man in the room looked down at his metal hand. "I won't fail you again sir."

OooooO

Carmelita Stampede was walking to school with her friend Tylieth. The two beautiful seventeen year old girls were in a deep conversation about a movie they had saw the night before. "Well anyway Carm, the point is it didn't make any sense."

"We've been over this, it does make sense if you just..." She stopped mid-sentence when they passed a corner, she saw a man leaning on a wall staring at them, or as far as she could tell he was. He wore a sleeveless yellow sweat-jacket over black clothes, his forearms were covered with gold arm-guards that were covered with skulls. He had short brown hair and scar under his right eyes. His most striking, and disturbing, feature was the absence of pupils and iris' of his eyes. His terrifying glare sent a shiver up her spine.

She shook it off and kept walking. "Who was that guy?" Tylieth had noticed him too.

"I don't know, but he creeps me out." Forgetting about that creepy guy.

OooooO

Much later Carmelita sat bored in her fifth period class listening to her teacher talk about history. She sighed, just wishing that something exciting would happen. And unfortunately she got her wish. An explosion rocked the entire school, panic and chaos ran throughout. Evacuation begun, and she was in a hurry to leave, she didn't care about the explosion, she was just happy to go home.

She rounded a corner and saw that it was empty, well it was. Black smoke started converging into a single ethereal body until it formed a person. He was covered with black clothes under gray armor, his head was covered with a silver and black tri-pronged helmet with piercing red eyes. A black trident materialized into his hands. He pointed it a her. "You're coming with me." He said.

And as if by chance, she saw a flash of yellow and the armored menace crashed through a wall. She looked inside the class room and saw the armored man fighting a man in a yellow sweat-jacket with it's hood drawn. The two were in a fight that would have appeared blindingly fast, but to her it seemed normal. After blocking a short combination from the helmet warrior, her savior hit him with a back-flip kick to his head. And as he fell to the ground, her savior smashed a desk over her attackers head, knocking him out cold.

She wasn't sure what to say. "Uhh, thanks I guess." She wasn't shocked by the threat to her life, as a Stampede, she was always calm under pressure.

Her savior looked to her, her eyes grew wide when she saw that it was the man that she saw this morning but with a yellow face mask covering his mouth and nose. With his blank eyes looking into hers. And he said very darkly. "If you plan to survive, then you'll come with me."

She took a long pause, then smiled and said. "Okay!"